Smuggler's Notch
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The Vermont-Canadian border in 1903 was rabid with secrecy. A journalist who just moved in may begin to uncover all the hidden horrors...
Mason Gaither has moved in from Philadelphia into the house his now deceased mother once inhabited in a town called Marxford, Vermont.
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